"We plan to gather the first signatures by next week and be finished prior to the 2018 legislative session in January," DJ Schanz, with the Utah Patients Coalition said. "Our volunteers -- many of them patients or caregivers themselves -- have been ready and eagerly waiting."

Medical marijuana isn't a new concept to Utah lawmakers, but after a failed bid to legalize in 2016, and no action taken by the Utah Legislature in 2017, Utah Patients Coalition decided to make it an issue for voters to decide for themselves.

In 2014, cannabidiol, which directed by a doctor, was legalized in Utah.